CVE-2010-2164 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2164?

CVE-2010-2164 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Adobe Air, published on 15 Jun 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610, might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to an unspecified "image type within a certain function."

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2164?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Adobe Air, Adobe Flash Player, Macromedia Flash Player.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2164?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2010-2164 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2164 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Air

• CVE-2016-1010 Adobe Flash Player and AIR Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-8651 Adobe Flash Player Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-8439 Adobe Flash Player Dereferenced Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2012-2034 Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.5
• CVE-2015-8459 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Adobe Air vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-3qcw-5j3f-5872.